Senior Web Engineer

Overview

In this role you will design and build scalable web products that reach a global audience, spanning frontend and backend systems. You will work at the intersection of product, platform, and engineering to shape reliable, high-performance services. You’ll collaborate across Product, Design and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions and help raise the engineering bar. This is a chance to contribute to a digital-first agenda at a trusted brand, with impact on how people access trusted insights.

Pay / Benefits

• pension or 401(k) plan
• private health insurance
• 24/7 counselling and wellbeing resources
• Work From Anywhere up to 25 days per year
• generous annual and parental leave
• days off for volunteering and moving homeaccess to Economist content and apps

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable web applications across the stack
• Develop responsive, accessible frontends using React and Next.js
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting features and integrations
• Design robust system architectures balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Own performance across the stack including frontend experience, backend efficiency, and caching strategies
• Drive best practices in testing, observability, and CI/CD across services in production
• Work with AWS cloud-native technologies for compute, storage, and managed databases
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams to shape end-to-end solutions
• Contribute to technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar within the team

Key requirements

• Experience in frontend and backend engineering
• Strong fullstack experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Production applications with React and Next.js
• Experience designing and developing APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Understanding of modern web architecture including SSR, static generation, and caching
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native system design
• Strong grasp of performance, accessibility, and scalable system design
• Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, and infrastructure as code

• collaboration within cross-functional teams
• mentorship of engineers
• proactive problem-solving
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React

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